Government of Wales Act 2006

Highways and transport U.K.

10 U.K. Highways, including bridges and tunnels. Streetworks. Traffic management and regulation. Transport facilities and services.

Exceptions—

• [F1 Registration of local bus services, and the application and enforcement of traffic regulation conditions in relation to those services.]

• Road freight transport services, including goods vehicles operating licensing.

• [F2 Regulation of the construction and equipment of motor vehicles and trailers, and regulation of the use of motor vehicles and trailers on roads, apart from—

  (a)

  any such regulation which—

  (i)

  relates to schemes for imposing charges in respect of the use or keeping of vehicles on Welsh trunk roads (“trunk road charging schemes”), or

  (ii)

  relates to the descriptions of motor vehicles and trailers which may be used under arrangements for persons to travel to and from the places where they receive education or training, unless the regulation is the setting of technical standards for construction or equipment of motor vehicles or trailers which differ from the standards that would or might otherwise apply to them; and

  (b)

  regulation of the use of motor vehicles and trailers carrying animals for the purpose of protecting human, animal or plant health, animal welfare or the environment.]

• Road traffic offences.

• Driver licensing.

• Driving instruction.

• Insurance of motor vehicles.

• Drivers' hours.

• [F3 Traffic regulation on special roads, apart from regulation relating to trunk road charging schemes.

• Pedestrian crossings.

• Traffic signs, apart from the placing and maintenance of traffic signs relating to trunk road charging schemes.

• Speed limits.]

• International road transport services for passengers.

• Public service vehicle operator licensing.

• Documents relating to vehicles and drivers for purposes of travel abroad and vehicles brought temporarily into Wales by persons resident outside the United Kingdom.

• Vehicle excise duty and vehicle registration.

• Provision and regulation of railway services, apart from financial assistance which—

  • (a) does not relate to the carriage of goods,

  • (b) is not made in connection with a railway administration order, and

  (c)

  [F4 is not made in connection with Regulation (EC) No 1370/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council on public passenger transport services by rail and by road F5 .

• [F6 Transport] security.[F7 , apart from regulation relating to the carriage of adults who supervise persons travelling to and from the places where they receive education or training]

• Railway heritage.

• Aviation, air transport, airports and aerodromes, apart from—

  • (a) financial assistance to providers or proposed providers of air transport services or airport facilities or services,

  • (b) strategies by the Welsh Ministers or local or other public authorities about provision of air services, and

  • (c) regulation of use of aircraft carrying animals for [F8 the purposes of protecting human, animal [F9 or plant] health], animal welfare or the environment.

• Shipping, apart from—

  • (a) financial assistance for shipping services to, from or within Wales, and

  • (b) regulation of use of vessels carrying animals [F8 the purposes of protecting human, animal [F9 or plant] health], animal welfare or the environment.

• Navigational rights and freedoms, apart from regulation of works which may obstruct or endanger navigation.

• Technical and safety standards of vessels.

• Harbours, docks, piers and boatslips,[F10 apart from—

(a) those used or required wholly or mainly for the fishing industry, for recreation, or for communication between places in Wales (or for two or more of those purposes), and

(b) regulation for the purposes of protecting human, animal [F9 or plant] health, animal welfare or the environment.]

• Carriage of dangerous goods (including transport of radioactive material).

• [F11 Technical specifications for fuel for use in internal combustion engines.]]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 7 Pt. 1: exception inserted (26.7.2007) by The National Assembly for Wales (Legislative Competence) (Amendment of Schedule 7 to the Government of Wales Act 2006) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/2143), art. 6

F2 Sch. 7 Pt. 1 para. 10: exception beginning "Regulation of the construction and equipment of motor vehicles" substituted (16.12.2010) by The National Assembly for Wales (Legislative Competence) (Amendment of Schedule 7 to the Government of Wales Act 2006) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2968), arts. 1(2), 7(1)(2)

F3 Sch. 7 Pt. 1 para. 10: exceptions beginning "Traffic regulation on special roads" substituted (16.12.2010) by The National Assembly for Wales (Legislative Competence) (Amendment of Schedule 7 to the Government of Wales Act 2006) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2968), arts. 1(2), 7(1)(3)

F4 Sch. 7 Pt. 1 para. 10: exception beginning "Provision and regulation of railway services" para. (c) substituted (16.12.2010) by The National Assembly for Wales (Legislative Competence) (Amendment of Schedule 7 to the Government of Wales Act 2006) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2968), arts. 1(2), 7(1)(4)

F5 OJ No. L315, 3.12.2007, p. 1.

F6 Words in Sch. 7 Pt. 1 substituted (26.7.2007) by The National Assembly for Wales (Legislative Competence) (Amendment of Schedule 7 to the Government of Wales Act 2006) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/2143), art. 6

F7 Sch. 7 Pt. 1 para. 10: words in exception "Transport security" inserted (16.12.2010) by The National Assembly for Wales (Legislative Competence) (Amendment of Schedule 7 to the Government of Wales Act 2006) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2968), arts. 1(2), 7(1)(5)

F8 Words in Sch. 7 Pt. 1 substituted (26.7.2007) by The National Assembly for Wales (Legislative Competence) (Amendment of Schedule 7 to the Government of Wales Act 2006) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/2143), art. 6

F9 Sch. 7 Pt. 1 para. 10: words in exceptions beginning "Aviation", "Shipping", "Harbours" substituted (16.12.2010) by The National Assembly for Wales (Legislative Competence) (Amendment of Schedule 7 to the Government of Wales Act 2006) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2968), arts. 1(2), 7(1)(6)

F10 Words in Sch. 7 Pt. 1 substituted (26.7.2007) by The National Assembly for Wales (Legislative Competence) (Amendment of Schedule 7 to the Government of Wales Act 2006) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/2143), art. 6

F11 Sch. 7 Pt. 1 para. 10: exception inserted (16.12.2010) by The National Assembly for Wales (Legislative Competence) (Amendment of Schedule 7 to the Government of Wales Act 2006) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2968), arts. 1(2), 7(1)(7)